US Department of Labor to cease and desist all investigative and enforcement activity under rescinded Executive Order 11246
US Department of Labor to cease and desist all investigative and enforcement activity under rescinded Executive Order 11246
For anyone who, like me, didn't know:
Executive Order 11246, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, prohibits discrimination in employment by federal contractors based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, and requires affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity in hiring. It aims to promote non-discriminatory practices in the workplace for those doing business with the federal government.
I guess workers are going to have to take things into their own hands again.
The moment he takes away protections for race is the moment I stop hiring white people.
In my industry, black people typically have lower salary expectations and have worked harder to get where they are.
This deals with equal opportunity for federal contractors. It's not directly tied to labor in the private sector.
But also, yes. I feel like maybe it's better in the long run if the federal government isn't looking out for people, and they get accustomed to organizing themselves enough to demand better treatment from their employers without anyone needing to hand it to them.
Maybe.
IDK, maybe I am just trying to rationalize what is guaranteed to happen regardless.
Like they did during the industrial revolution and the coal mining era?
I'll have to start wearing my Cabin Creek shirt more often.
They're ending all investigations into workplace discrimination.
A fair and equitable workplace should have been ratified in the constitution forever ago. Now we just lost our labor rights enforcement.
Joan Westenberg’s framing of this problem as “technical debt” I think is spot-on. Because congress (especially the Senate) has become unable to pass bills, and states are no longer able to amend the constitution, we have amassed a ton of technical debt in our laws, patched only by executive orders that can be easily swept away by the next executive.
https://www.theindex.media/americas-constitutional-crisis-is-really-about-technical-debt/
You know how Milton burns down the building in Office Space?